GOOGLE SHUTS NOTEBOOK,CATALOG SEARCH,DODGE BALL,JAIKU AND VIDEO SERVICE

For google services microblogging platform Jaiku, mobile location service Dodgeball, Google Catalog search, and Google Notebook today is the death day.Though google didn't announce the reason the strategy looks simple to shut down extra costs in this recession times.Not only services google is also planning to cut 70 engineers as a part of the cutting costs.
Thuough notebook will be online all the development will be stopped and browser extension is not supported any more.Google Video will also be downgraded, with users no longer able to
upload video to the service, being forced to use YouTube instead.Google Video, Google’s original foray into online video before it acquired YouTube is switching off uploads; videos currently uploaded to the service will remain. No word yet as to whether YouTube will now accept video longer than 10 minutes, one of Google Video’s still strong selling points today.

Google will no longer actively develop the Jaiku codebase, the service itself will live on thanks to a dedicated and passionate volunteer team of Googlers.Google have decided to shut down the Mashup Editor, currently in limited private beta, in favor of the more powerful App Engine infrastructure.Existing Mashup Editor applications will stop receiving traffic in six months, and we hope you will join our team in making the exciting transition to App Engine.
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COSTLIEST BENZ WITH 30,000 CRYSTALS

Two custom cars that caught attention are now on display at the Toyko Auto Salon at Makuhari Messe in China, east of Tokyo. On January 9, 2009 two sparkly Mercedes-Benz SL600's made a lively debut. The
custom car accessory company Garson/D.A.D put up the two Benz, studded with 300,000 Swarovski crystal glass studs.Mercedes SL600 which is also termed as the Luxury Crystal Benz.

VISIT THE PAINTINGS IN PRADO MUSEUM THROUGH GOOGLE EARTH.

Google launches the Prado layer in Google Earth allowing you to explore highly detailed photographic images of fourteen of the Prado Museum's masterpieces. The Prado Museum in Madrid is one of Spain's most visited destinations and via the Google Earth layer you can view and learn about its most famous paintings such s The Maids of Honor (Las Meninas) or The Three Graces (Las Tres Gracias)



The Prado Museum has become the first art gallery in the world to provideaccess to and navigation of its Collection in Google Earth.  Using Google Earth, art historians, students and tourists everywhere can zoom
in on and explore the finer details of the artist's brushwork that can be easily missed at first glance.

The paintings have been photographed in very high resolution and contain as many as 14,000 million pixels (14 gigapixels). With this high level resolution you areable to see fine details such as the tiny bee on a flower in The Three Graces (Las Tres Gracias), delicate tears on the faces of the figures in The Descent from the Cross (El Descendimiento ) and complex figures in The Garden of Earthly Delights (El Jardin de las Delicias)
The Google Earth Prado layer also includes 3D models which allow you to flyaround the Prado buildings to experience the museum as if you were actually there.

To view the layer, select 3D buildings from the left panel and type 'Prado' in the 'fly to' search box.  You will thenbe transported to the Prado Museum in 3D

The detail, above, showing a tear fall from the eye of an onlooker as
the Body of Christ is taken down from the Cross, is from the
masterpiece The Descent of Christ from the Cross by Van der Weyden, which is displayed in El Prado, Madrid.where you can click on an icon
to view the masterpieces.

People wanting to view the masterpieces must first download and install Google Earth. They need to enable the programme’s 3D option and then travel to Madrid and click the button marking the Prado building.

The images were sewn together digitally from more than 8,000 high resolution photographs taken over six months.

Some of the masterpieces, such as the 3.3 by 2.8 metre portrait of Charles V, are so huge that it is impossible to get close enough to the original to see some details. “You would need a three-metre-high step-ladder,” said Clara Rivera of Google, who thought up the idea of a gigapixel gallery.

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APPLE TRIBOOK THE FUTURE CONCEPT

TriBook is a new apple concept which will raise the level of technology to its apex. This concept contains MacBook with three screens in one with a trackpad equal to the size of the keyboard. TRiBook will provide extra workspace to its users. It will be tiny in size regardless of the two fold-out screens. For now, TriBook

The concept uses the aluminum hardware of Apple’s new laser-cut “brick” technology to provide rigidity and strength to the attached displays screens of the 21-inch TriBook. The Tribook will facilitate with an 8x SuperDrive, a few I/O connectors, a high-quality hard drive, a "Kickass hard drive" and a CPU similarly to the apple is of course just a concept, but one can easily see its benefits.MacBook. An unfolded TriBook measures at 6.75 x 10 inches, and it is about 1 inch thick.

The Tribook looks like a simple apple MacBook when it is in its folded state. TriBook is much suitable for Gamer freak who want to add screen after screen to their PC for the ultimate gaming experience. Still ,it is just a concept but it would be realistic soon.

In Case of Emergency (ICE) PHONE

The iCEphone is a combination of two new products that can either work independently or together:
a cross-platform medical software package and a phone that sets a new industry standard in convergence technology.The cutting edge micro-notebook touch phone is the Swiss Army Knife of handsets, effortlessly combining four main devices:

• Windows Mobile micro-notebook
• Fully featured 3G touch phone
• Games player with multiple triggers
• Satellite Navigation via GPS

It is beautifully engineered, ruggedised, and effortlessly changes
shape to adopt multiple user interfaces. A full QWERTY keyboard
with large keys and a proper mouse are firsts for mobile phones.
Also included are WiFi, Bluetooth, Push To Talk (PTT) and dual SIM.

INNOVATIVE MEDICAL SOFTWARE PACKAGE

iCE Aid is designed to assist anyone, anywhere in the world affected
by a medical emergency. The software package reduces the time to
receive appropriate treatment – the critical factor in emergency
medicine. It has three main functions:

• Provides step by step emergency first aid software to lead
  you by the hand and show you what to do and how to do it
• Automatically records what has been done and compiles a handover
  report to give to the emergency services
• Holds your medical records in a safe and secure fashion.
  WRIST MOUNT
  
  A wrist mount for the handset allows the attending medic or doctor
  to treat the casualty hands-free, while utilising the large touch
  screen to make the software clearly visible and accessible. It also
  has the following features:
  
  
• Reader device for the electronic ID tag
• Secondary charging facility
• Interface to emergency/military communication systems

Its camera consists of
3.1 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, video form
factor allows forward facing for photos and and rearward facing
for videocalls.The phone is showcased at the CES 2009 and attracted a lot of visitors.The cost of the phone would be around $800